Top 33 Strayhorn's Quotes
#1. It (Strayhorn's Compositions) made us all think a little differently about what we were doing
Benny Carter
#2. The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 A.M.
Charlie Pierce
#3. Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
Quincy Jones
#5. Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise.
Jeff VanderMeer
#6. The
number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure
Steve Harvey
#7. Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.
Billy Strayhorn
#8. [Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin.
Stephane Grappelli
#9. Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called 'the common good'
Ayn Rand
#10. My diary has its own kind of magic. It gives me the feeling of having accomplished something. On days when I don't have time for this, I feel tortured.
Orhan Pamuk
#13. It really was truth or consequences, and Billy went with truth. It was just incredible." Forsaking public prominence, Strayhorn found personal freedom in service to the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Now there might not be a Billy Strayhorn Orchestra. But there was a Billy Strayhorn.
David Hajdu
#15. A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
Billy Strayhorn
#16. My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.
Billy Strayhorn
#17. I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love.
Billy Strayhorn
#19. In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.
Billy Strayhorn
#20. Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.
William Wordsworth
#21. I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.
Randy Falco
#22. That's all I did - that's all I ever did - try to do what Billy Strayhorn did.
Gil Evans
#27. I am not concerned about results. The only thing I am concerned about is the process. How you tried to achieve something matters more than what you achieved.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#28. 'El Otro Lado' has heavy emphasis on the bass and loads of nice little touches and sounds you really notice on a big system.
Subb-an
#29. Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford
#30. Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness ... the greed, the hate all around us.
John D. Voelker
#31. Everyone's different, but it was fun for me to work with Garth Hudson. He's from 'The Band.' They are a massive influence, that was a big thrill. He's completely out of his mind.
Teddy Thompson
